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The Hidden Cost of Living: A Memo on how Housing Instability Drives Food Insecurity in NYC

Online retail nudges to help parents with lower-income choose healthy beverages for their children: A randomized clinical trial

Identifying Geographic Disparities in Diabetes Prevalence Among Adults and Children Using Emergency Claims Data

| Journal of the Academic of Nutrition and Dietetics

Change in an Urban Food Environment: Storefront Sources of Food/Drink Increasing Over Time and Not Limited to Food Stores and Restaurants

| Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Engaging Ethnic Restaurants to Improve Community Nutrition Environments: A Qualitative Study with Hispanic Caribbean Restaurants in New York City

Healthful and less-healthful foods and drinks from storefront and non-storefront businesses: implications for ‘food deserts’, ‘food swamps’ and food-source disparities

Concordance and Discordance in the Geographic Distribution of Childhood Obesity and Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes in New York City

Ethnic Restaurant Nutrition Environments and Cardiovascular Health: Examining Hispanic Caribbean Restaurants in New York City

| Regional Science and Urban Economics

Does proximity to fast food cause childhood obesity? Evidence from public housing

| Journal of Medical Internet Research

The Diabetes Location, Environmental Attributes, and Disparities Network: Protocol for Nested Case Control and Cohort Studies, Rationale, and Baseline Characteristics